I think my DPF is almost full...

[Greg Roles]

Ive never had a Regen i've driven over 55,000km , could it be that I don't nurse the car or am I just lucky and mines a 125KW diesel ?

You would have had approx. 68 active regens in that time, you just aren't aware of it. Ever noticed the car idling at 1000rpm instead of 800rpm? THAT's an active regen. You get approx. 800kms between them, give or take.

[Mysticality]

Hey, guys!
Just chiming in... What do these values mean?

They're from the 18th of April, so an easy 15-25,000km ago...


EDIT: It did a regen on the way home from the bloke with the VCDS, 100km trip - about 5k's in.

[benough]

Now THIS is a proper regen

[Greg Roles]

I hope that was on the motorway!!

You need to keep EGT's above 600 to get a proper burn, but your inlet flap will sort that out. I have to do that manually, and it's actually hard to keep EGT's up enough to get a full burn if not on the highway.

[Greg Roles]

Hey, guys!
Just chiming in... What do these values mean?

They're from the 18th of April, so an easy 15-25,000km ago...


EDIT: It did a regen on the way home from the bloke with the VCDS, 100km trip - about 5k's in.

Without going right into it, all is well, and you are doing better soot wise than the car calculates you should - at that period in time anyway.

You Mark 6 guys don't need to worry till you hit 100,000k, it's the MKV guys like me in that sort of tiger country now.

[benough]

I hope that was on the motorway!!

You need to keep EGT's above 600 to get a proper burn, but your inlet flap will sort that out. I have to do that manually, and it's actually hard to keep EGT's up enough to get a full burn if not on the highway.

Yeah it was

It will do it on a normal road as well...

[Mysticality]

Without going right into it, all is well, and you are doing better soot wise than the car calculates you should - at that period in time anyway.

You Mark 6 guys don't need to worry till you hit 100,000k, it's the MKV guys like me in that sort of tiger country now.

You say that like its reassuring, but 18 months in its up to 93,000km.

I'll do another check once I clock the 6 digits. Cheers!

[Rick86]

Hi,

How do you get the dpf info to show in the DIS like that?

Thanks,

Rick

[Rick86]

Now THIS is a proper regen

Hi,

How do you get the dpf info to display in the DIS?

Thanks,

Rick

[benough]

Hi,

How do you get the dpf info to display in the DIS?

Thanks,

Rick

Hey Rick

I installed a Polar FIS+

Not cheap but I love mine


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[Greenvagride]

I’ve done 220 thou. Never had a dpf light on the dash. Never had limp mode. It’s a gt sport. Always serviced , religiously. Lots of highway klms I think has been the secret

[Amalgam]

YouTube

An interesting take on DPFs from a lapsed engineer come youtuber

[Bora Sport]

My wife's 2010 Jetta 125 TDI has done over 260,000k's. My Skoda Octavia Scout that I bought second hand has now done 198,000k's. We went to the Gold Coast last Friday in the Skoda. 2.5 hours and about 220k's on the highway. The regen light came on around Caboolture and stayed on until we were on the Gateway bridge. Unfortunately I wasn't driving at the time but a message came up on the display when the light went out. I've never seen that light come on in the Jetta. BTW because I knew we were doing the long run on the highway I bought a bottle of that DPF cleaner stuff and put it into the full tank before we left.

I just checked and its almost a year since I bought it and it had 174,400k's on it when I bought it. So the old bugger has done around 24,000k's since I bought it sight unseen.

[neil]

I recon you can extend the life by the fuel company you use.
Luckily I have the jetta without DPF so can easily throw smoke out the back, and there is a huge difference between what companies
are selling , at night with someone behind with lights on running BP fuel , little can be seen and nothing during the day unless you
give a big boot full, but when I have to use something else like Mobile diesel it just pours black smoke out and at night is an
embarrassment with someone trailing you.

[BeigeJet]

I recon you can extend the life by the fuel company you use.
and there is a huge difference between what companies are selling , at night with someone behind with lights on running BP fuel , little can be seen and nothing during the day unless you
give a big boot full, but when I have to use something else like Mobile diesel it just pours black smoke out and at night is an
embarrassment with someone trailing you.

Or just use Morey's diesel smoke killer! Does a similar thing and has reduced our fuel consumption by about 0.25L/100. Enough to make a difference